The Charlie Kirk Show - The Arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried + Saying Goodbye to Mike Leach
Aired: 2022-12-13
Duration: 33:41


=== Crypto Bank Run Explained (08:46) ===

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[00:01:22]  Last evening, Sam Bankman Freed has been officially indicted by the United States government, by the Department of Justice.
[00:01:31]  Interestingly, right on the cusp, before he would have to testify in front of Congress and answer a lot of questions about exactly where did all this money go?
[00:01:42]  Well, look, for over a month, millions of crypto investors around the world were very worried that Sam Bankman Freed would somehow pull off one of the greatest criminal Houdini acts in history.
[00:01:57]  Now, Sam Bankman-Freed's crypto exchange called FTX collapsed about a month ago.
[00:02:04]  It collapsed because of a crypto blog called Coinbase that noticed an irregularity in their reporting.
[00:02:13]  Now, I'm far from a crypto expert.
[00:02:15]  From what I understand, though, one of the selling points or one of the characteristics of crypto technology is that there is an open ledger so people can go through it and they can see are your books actually balanced?
[00:02:29]  You can see all the transactions.
[00:02:31]  And I actually believe Coinbase didn't necessarily find the discrepancy in FTX itself, but in one of FTX's investments or subsidiaries.
[00:02:40]  It might have been Alameda.
[00:02:41]  It might have been one of their other projects.
[00:02:43]  And so this caused a basically crypto bank run.
[00:02:47]  SPF just sat at his home in the Bahamas giving interviews while no charges were forthcoming.
[00:02:52]  But yesterday that changed, and the timing, I think, is very interesting.
[00:02:56]  In the Bahamas, they announced that they arrested SPF and his home.
[00:03:00]  It's Coindesk, not Coinbase.
[00:03:02]  I'm sorry.
[00:03:02]  CoinDesk is the blog.
[00:03:03]  Coinbase is something else.
[00:03:05]  Forgive me for that.
[00:03:06]  So this morning, the Security Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice revealed they had brought charges against SPF for securities fraud.
[00:03:15]  So some more background on this.
[00:03:16]  FTX was a crypto exchange.
[00:03:19]  It was a website where people could transfer their own money in and use it to buy or sell cryptocurrencies.
[00:03:26]  The variety of cryptocurrencies available on the platform and the options you had for investing made FTX very popular with crypto investors.
[00:03:36]  Well over 1 million people used FTX as a pseudo crypto bank.
[00:03:44]  But according to the Security Exchange Commission, SPF treated FTX and its users as a piggy bank for his own financial ventures.
[00:03:53]  Instead of holding users' funds on the platform, SPF secretly transferred many of those funds to his own private crypto hedge fund named Alameda Research.
[00:04:05]  So SPF went on a media tour.
[00:04:07]  As soon as it was found that Alameda Research was built as a Potemkin village, he started to go do media interview.
[00:04:15]  After media interview, let's go back in time.
[00:04:18]  This was SBF.
[00:04:20]  And notice just how he dresses, his appearance, his hair, his voice, almost acting as if he's an innocent teenager in one of the great heists in human history.
[00:04:32]  Play cut 44 of him testifying about consumer advocates.
[00:04:37]  Play cut 44.
[00:04:39]  I say this with the utmost respect, but I actually found something a little bit offensive that was said.
[00:04:44]  I'm going to be pretty blunt.
[00:04:46]  Most of the traders on our platform know a lot more about these contracts than many of the people in this room, including many of the people in this room who are condescendingly talking to them about what they do and don't know and should and shouldn't be offered.
[00:04:58]  Anyway, I just had to get off my chest a little bit.
[00:05:02]  And I think it's to some points about consumer choice here.
[00:05:05]  His seventh grade voice, the unkept hair, the sloppy appearance.
[00:05:13]  It was all a ruse.
[00:05:15]  It was a ruse to have us treat him differently as if maybe he knows something we don't know.
[00:05:20]  No, he's a thief, period.
[00:05:22]  He's not a genius.
[00:05:24]  He's not some sort of whiz kid.
[00:05:27]  He's a robber baron.
[00:05:29]  The complaint from the indictment alleges that Bankman Freed used commingled FTX consumer funds, customer funds, I'm sorry, at Alameda to make undisclosed venture investments, lavish real estate purchases, and large political donations.
[00:05:45]  Now, the real estate purchases interest me because here is SBF going around saying, my net worth is $100,000.
[00:05:54]  And I remember a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned, I said, there's no way that's true.
[00:05:58]  I said, I guarantee you, he purchased land all over the world as a way to harbor cash and a way to evade detection of his actual net worth.
[00:06:12]  Cut 49, Sam Bankman Freed talking to the New York Times saying he didn't knowingly commingle any funds.
[00:06:22]  Play cut 49.
[00:06:23]  There is a view that this is about commingling of funds.
[00:06:27]  I ain't knowingly commingle funds.
[00:06:29]  I was frankly surprised by how big Alameda's position was, which points to another failure of oversight on my part, but I wasn't trying to commingle funds.
[00:06:40]  So he claims he wasn't trying to commingle funds.
[00:06:44]  So all of this word gamesmanship and maneuvering worked perfectly as long as the crypto market was going up.
[00:06:55]  But as soon as the market cooled off and people got a little bit crypto wary, SBF started to take massive losses, which then he had to increasingly take desperate measures to cover up.
[00:07:07]  When you start to engage in a cycle of fraud and treachery and deception and sin, it requires more fraud, treachery, and deception to cover it up.
[00:07:19]  Said differently in a biblical context, sin does not operate in a silo.
[00:07:25]  If you lie about something, you likely are going to have to lie about the lie to cover up the lie.
[00:07:29]  And you're probably lying about something that you did that you shouldn't have been doing in the first place.
[00:07:33]  And instead of not doing that thing, then you have to lie about that thing, then you have to lie about it.
[00:07:37]  And you go deeper and deeper and deeper into a place where you are no longer free.
[00:07:43]  This is Sam Bankman Freed.
[00:07:45]  One of SBF's tactics was that he took $8 billion that Alameda owed to FDX and he hid it in an ordinary customer's account he called the Weird Korean account.
[00:07:57]  By doing this, he was able to hide the huge hole that he opened in his balance sheet.
[00:08:02]  Overall, the amount secretly moved between FTX and Alameda appears to be in the range of $10 billion.
[00:08:13]  Other analysts say that it was upwards of $2 billion of client funds are not accounted for in any way, shape, or form.
[00:08:23]  Combined with the massive losses created by FTX's actual collapse, the total loss from SBF schemes exceed $20 billion.
[00:08:35]  Now, the details of this financial fraud are actually a lot less interesting, in my opinion, than the psychological and moral details.

=== The Pattern of Immorality (03:04) ===

[00:08:46]  And that's what I want to focus a little bit of our time on today.
[00:08:50]  Because people are going to be talking about the hyper-technical nature.
[00:08:53]  Well, wire fraud and securities fraud and campaign finance.
[00:08:57]  No, no, no, no.
[00:08:59]  There is a pattern that is emerging here.
[00:09:02]  Pattern that is manifesting in people like Yoel Roth, in Vagaya, whatever her name is, from Twitter, in the Egerwall fella who used to run Twitter, to Sam Bankman-Fried.
[00:09:16]  There is an attitude, an immorality, a sneakiness that is combined in a hyper-technological, advanced, yet secular society that is just beginning to cause widespread damage, chaos, and suffering for people.
[00:09:39]  And Sam Bankman-Fried, now indicted, will have to answer for just some of those crimes.
[00:09:44]  But I believe it's actually much worse than what he'll ever be held accountable for.
[00:09:49]  I believe the immorality of this punk kid is something that needs to be examined and exposed.
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[00:11:45]  Yes, that's 47.
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[00:11:48]  I wasn't spending any time or effort to manage risk.

=== Secular Culture and Prayer (03:52) ===

[00:11:51]  Of course, you weren't.
[00:11:52]  You're a punk boy king.
[00:11:53]  Play cut 47.
[00:11:55]  I wasn't even trying.
[00:11:57]  Like, I wasn't spending any time or effort trying to manage risk on FTX.
[00:12:04]  Trying, like, I don't know what to say.
[00:12:06]  Like, what happened happened?
[00:12:08]  And, like, if I had been spending an hour a day thinking about risk management on FTX, I don't think that would have happened.
[00:12:16]  I think I got a little cocky.
[00:12:19]  Yeah, a little cocky.
[00:12:20]  How about saying, I'm sorry?
[00:12:23]  Any form of introspective remorse?
[00:12:28]  He speaks with certain language and diction and word selection that is quasi-sociopathic.
[00:12:40]  Now, the details of the financial fraud, again, are not as interesting as the psychological part of this because I think Bankman Freed is an example of some of the worst excesses that came post-China virus.
[00:12:54]  Now, remember, after the China virus and the creation of trillions of dollars out of thin air, those trillions of dollars had to find a home.
[00:13:05]  And for many people, they found a home in very risky, unproven crypto markets.
[00:13:15]  So SBF had a very public profile.
[00:13:18]  He presented himself as a moral leader in crypto and in business.
[00:13:22]  He also touted himself as a follower of what he called effective altruism.
[00:13:29]  This is part of how he was able to justify to himself and to others the treachery, the deceit, the fraud, and the theft.
[00:13:43]  You see, in Silicon Valley, it's a very secular environment.
[00:13:49]  Now, of course, he wasn't in Silicon Valley, but he was in the Bahamas, but he was basically part of the Silicon Valley Valley culture.
[00:13:56]  So let's just call it techie culture, for lack of a better term.
[00:13:59]  In techie culture, it's a very secular world.
[00:14:02]  So you have to all of a sudden come up with all of these new age, some would say pagan or secular, atheistic, materialistic, humanistic moral codes to live by.
[00:14:17]  So for example, Google used to have an actually pretty good moral code if you're going good by the materialistic, humanistic standard, which was do no evil.
[00:14:29]  First, do no evil.
[00:14:30]  Okay.
[00:14:32]  That's actually not that bad.
[00:14:34]  Now, Google's new one is go do good or something of that iteration.
[00:14:39]  Now, in private text messages, Sam Bankman Freed admitted that this guise of effective altruism was a ruse.
[00:14:49]  It was a lie.
[00:14:52]  In fact, he joked to Vox's Kelsey Piper and said, quote, this dumb game we woke Westerners play, where we say all the right things, or he said, shibboleths.
[00:15:05]  I don't really know what that is.
[00:15:06]  And everyone likes us.
[00:15:09]  You have to, and this is something we've said for some time, we've diagnosed this, that how many people in charge of companies, how many people that are saying all the right things, they don't mean a word of it.
[00:15:20]  Basically, it's go pay your tribute, go say the prayer, the woke prayer.
[00:15:26]  America's systemically racist and white cisgendered heterosexual men are to blame.
[00:15:31]  And through giving part of my income, my wealth, my time, my treasure, I will be able to empower the wokies so I can remain rich and powerful and untouched by the regime.

=== Fraud Worse Than Madoff (10:23) ===

[00:15:43]  That is basically the wokey prayer.
[00:15:46]  You say it over and over and over again.
[00:15:49]  It becomes a religious incantation.
[00:15:53]  And so one of the ways that SBFs got away with this for so long is that he made massive donations to politicians, in particular, Democrat candidates.
[00:16:07]  And this is where this story gets very interesting.
[00:16:11]  And why this story is only going to gain momentum and expose more fraudsters.
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[00:17:23]  So Sam Bankman Freed was scheduled to testify, I believe today, and then he gets indicted.
[00:17:30]  Well, the new Republican Congress needs to make a pledge that whether Sam Bankman Freed is in handcuffs or in shackles or has to zoom in from Rikers, Sam Bankman Freed is going to testify because there are a lot of questions we have.
[00:17:44]  What is the relationship between Sam Bankman Freed and Maxine Waters?
[00:17:49]  Sam Bankman Freed, let's play the news report of him being arrested yesterday.
[00:17:54]  Let's play Cut 43.
[00:17:55]  Andrew Sam Bankman Freed has now been arrested and Bahamian authorities are now waiting for an extradition request from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
[00:18:05]  The arrest comes just hours before SBF was set to appear before Congress.
[00:18:09]  Of course, that will no longer happen.
[00:18:11]  The New York Times says the charges include wire fraud and bank fraud, which means SBF could be looking at life in prison.
[00:18:18]  Now, the people who have benefited from this, Joe Manchin, Patty Murray, Padilla, Booker, Murkowski, Durbin, play Cut 34.
[00:18:27]  It'll be interesting to watch the lawmakers who received contributions in this year, 2022.
[00:18:34]  We actually put together a scroll.
[00:18:36]  There's so many, I won't even be able to put them all up on the screen.
[00:18:39]  So you have to imagine as he sits in the hot seat, many of them are as well.
[00:18:44]  Some, by the way, have already said that any funds they receive from him or the company, they will be donated to charity.
[00:18:50]  Some people say this should be some sort of victims' fund going back to those who lost, in some cases, their entire life savings.
[00:18:57]  Now, when Madoff stole the money that he stole, which was considerable, some people actually were contacted afterwards and had to pay back, pay it back.
[00:19:09]  There's going to be some sort of a victims fund.
[00:19:11]  In fact, one of our team members here, he lost a bunch of money.
[00:19:16]  He put money in FTX, poor guy.
[00:19:19]  And he's just out money.
[00:19:20]  I don't know if he's out 500 or 1,000, but he's out some serious money.
[00:19:24]  So SBF stole money from regular everyday people, used it to then buy real estate, donate to Democrat candidates, all under the guise of effective altruism.
[00:19:39]  Now, this sort of thing makes you wonder what kind of punishment is fitting for people or someone like SBF.
[00:19:47]  Elizabeth Holmes got 11 years for her scam at Theranos.
[00:19:52]  Now, in some ways, what SBF did is a lot more depraved than even some murders, some murders, not all murders, but some murders.
[00:20:04]  There are horrible crimes that are simply one-off crimes of passion.
[00:20:10]  But what SBF did here required telling lies to countless people every single day.
[00:20:18]  It was living a lie.
[00:20:21]  It was embodying the deceit.
[00:20:25]  Lies that were enabled by building an entirely fake, synthetic persona.
[00:20:32]  SBF's lives treated everyone around him as a sucker, and he was like that in private text messages, in meetings.
[00:20:40]  I am smarter than you.
[00:20:43]  Sam Bankman-Fried was not giving money to politicians because he believed in the cause.
[00:20:48]  It was a down payment, an investment.
[00:20:50]  Dare I say a bribe to try to protect him.
[00:20:54]  He thought to himself, if I give enough money to politicians, they're not going to investigate me.
[00:21:00]  And then if I come out and proclaim that I am going to give $1 billion to defeat Donald Trump, the regime will absolutely protect me.
[00:21:09]  You see, Sam Bankman-Fried came out in an interview and he said, I am going to commit $1 billion to the defeat of Donald Trump.
[00:21:17]  And so maybe that will make a prosecutor or two think that he's very helpful.
[00:21:21]  But in the end, with billions of dollars that were lost, SBF ruined so many lives just as much as any violent criminal could.
[00:21:32]  Now, he's been indicted for wire fraud, tax fraud, campaign finance fraud.
[00:21:38]  But isn't it interesting, one of the people that is tasked with overseeing this actually benefited from it?
[00:21:46]  Play cut 37 of Aunt Maxine almost making sense.
[00:21:51]  Play cut 37.
[00:21:52]  I want to say that I'm pleased that the committee's efforts have pushed enforcement agencies across the country to take greater action against bad actors who misuse customers' funds.
[00:22:04]  I also applaud the SEC for authorizing separate charges relating to Mr. Bankman-Fried, and I look forward to additional actions to hold him accountable and make customers more whole again.
[00:22:19]  We talked at length about treachery yesterday.
[00:22:23]  And Dante, in his analysis of the hierarchy of sins, considered that the worst possible sin was treachery.
[00:22:31]  The second worst sin for Dante was fraud.
[00:22:34]  Yes, according to the Divine Comedy and his analysis, and you could agree or disagree on this, but there is some rational and there's a tremendous rational and logical basis for this, that committing deliberate fraud was actually worse than violence.
[00:22:49]  In a lot of ways, that makes sense.
[00:22:52]  Both fraud and treachery are cold and calculated forms of evil.
[00:23:01]  In many different ways, they require a truly warped person on the inside for a sustained period of time.
[00:23:10]  That is SBF.
[00:23:12]  Nothing he did was impulsive or short-term or ill-considered.
[00:23:17]  This was a long-term and calculated scheme that caused more damage to more people than any financial fraud since Madoff.
[00:23:28]  And dare I even go further?
[00:23:31]  The victims of Bernie Madoff were legitimate, but they were also older.
[00:23:37]  The victims of Bernie Madoff were more established in life.
[00:23:40]  They probably had equity in a home.
[00:23:42]  They had other stocks and bonds.
[00:23:44]  Some people got wiped out totally by Madoff.
[00:23:48]  Some people were, they took a hit and were just fine.
[00:23:51]  The vast majority of the victims that Sam Bankman Freed stole from were young, late 20 and early 30s-somethings that were just trying to get started in life.
[00:24:06]  That were trying to build a family, that were already up to their eyes in student loan debt.
[00:24:11]  They were unable to get out of consumer debt or credit card debt.
[00:24:15]  And they saw this as a safe haven.
[00:24:17]  They saw FTX as a pseudo-crypto exchange bank, a place that in an uncertain market, that they could keep their money.
[00:24:26]  And SBF thought he could get away with all of it by donating to the right Democrats, by funneling money to their super PACs.
[00:24:36]  He thought that he was smarter than everybody else.
[00:24:40]  Here is Cut 48 of Sam Bankman Freed saying, look, I've had a bad month.
[00:24:45]  And everyone erupts in laughter.
[00:24:46]  Play Cut 48.
[00:24:47]  How concerned are you about criminal liability at this point?
[00:24:51]  So I don't think that, I mean, obviously, I don't personally think that I have, you know, but I think the real answer is that's not, it sounds weird to say, but I think the real answer is that's not what I'm focusing on.
[00:25:08]  Like right now, I mean, look, I've had a bad month.
[00:25:13]  This has not been a fun, but that's not what matters here.
[00:25:18]  So look, I'll just say it.
[00:25:21]  I'm not a believer in the death penalty.
[00:25:24]  But if I was, and if I did believe in the death penalty, SBF should get it.
[00:25:30]  Criminals like SBF or Bernie Madoff should get penalties on par with the worst murderers and traitors.
[00:25:38]  SBF should never see the outside of a cell again.
[00:25:41]  He needs to tell very clearly everything he knows, become a compliant whistleblower.
[00:25:48]  And it makes you think in December of 2020, what if this fraud would have been unraveled nine months ago?
[00:25:56]  How many tens of millions of dollars that were put into this midterm cycle through stolen accounts that otherwise would not be there?

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[00:28:12]  I remember the first time I watched Mike Leach.
[00:28:17]  I'm a big college football fan, and he was the coach of the Texas Tech Raiders.
[00:28:24]  It's one of the best Red Raiders, thanks.
[00:28:27]  One of the best football teams ever assembled.
[00:28:33]  Graham Harrell was their quarterback.
[00:28:35]  I believe Michael Crabtree was their wide receiver.
[00:28:40]  And there was this eccentric coach that was something else.
[00:28:45]  He changed football forever.
[00:28:48]  Air raid offense to how he was able to get kids that otherwise would not be playing at Alabama or Georgia or USC to just overperform.
[00:29:00]  And he was a wise, he was a wise guy.
[00:29:03]  And he was a patriot.
[00:29:05]  This is Cut 45: Mike Leach responding to the blowback over his support for Donald Trump.
[00:29:11]  Play Cut 45.
[00:29:12]  I quite honestly don't care because I respect their opinion and their choice to select anybody that they want to be their candidate.
[00:29:22]  I mean, do we really live in a country where you can't freely support whoever you want?
[00:29:27]  I mean, is that what you're suggesting?
[00:29:29]  And is it their prerogative to ask for that?
[00:29:32]  I don't think it is.
[00:29:33]  You know, we've always had freedom of speech, always had the right to protest, and I think that should be respected as long as it's in an orderly fashion.
[00:29:43]  You know, I respect their opinion, and I'm certainly not going to hide from my opinion.
[00:29:47]  And I shouldn't be asked to, evidently, if I am asked to.
[00:29:51]  I live in a different country than we were all told that we grew up in.
[00:29:56]  Amen for that.
[00:29:58]  Loved his country.
[00:29:59]  He was a big fan of Turning Point USA.
[00:30:01]  We texted regularly.
[00:30:03]  And he didn't care what other people thought.
[00:30:06]  Probably one of the most epic, viral videos.
[00:30:09]  It's two minutes long.
[00:30:11]  And if you don't laugh, then you take yourself way too seriously.
[00:30:14]  Play Cut 40.
[00:30:14]  It's two minutes long.
[00:30:16]  We do this in honor of the now passed away Mike Leach.
[00:30:22]  There's more facts and thought crimes in these two minutes.
[00:30:25]  Play Cut 40.
[00:30:26]  I'm just telling you, when it comes to marriages, the women lose their mind.
[00:30:32]  Your fiancé's going to lose her mind.
[00:30:35]  Your mother-in-law is going to lose her mind.
[00:30:38]  Your mom is going to lose her mind.
[00:30:40]  They're going to barrage you with constant questions.
[00:30:43]  What should we wear?
[00:30:45]  And then, which, of course, my answer was, I don't care.
[00:30:49]  And then what color should the invitations be?
[00:30:52]  I don't care.
[00:30:54]  What should we have for dessert?
[00:30:56]  I don't care.
[00:30:57]  Should we seek this this way or that that way?
[00:31:00]  I don't care.
[00:31:01]  But see, I don't care is not satisfactory at all.
[00:31:04]  And you're going to get caught in a catch-22, and I'm certain that you already have.
[00:31:08]  What do you want for dessert?
[00:31:10]  I was thinking of strawberry shortcake.
[00:31:12]  Oh, okay.
[00:31:13]  Yeah, strawberry shortcake would be good.
[00:31:15]  Well, what about the blueberry pie?
[00:31:17]  Well, I like the blueberry pie.
[00:31:19]  We could have the blueberry pie.
[00:31:20]  Well, I thought you said you wanted the strawberry shortcake.
[00:31:23]  And it's just going to go back and forth.
[00:31:25]  There's no answer you can give that is going to be satisfactory or correct.
[00:31:29]  And if you successfully please a few of them, the others will still be, oh, well, I just don't feel like he's that interested.
[00:31:36]  Yeah, okay, so you need to work late, go in the back room and read a lot of books.
[00:31:41]  You have to go take the groomsmen out so you make sure that they march in just right and they know exactly, you know, these swell outfits that you picked out or whatever, however you're doing it.
[00:31:53]  And in the end, you'll wish you eloped.
[00:31:56]  But nevertheless, you need to find excuses that they'll buy to be as far out of harm's way as you possibly can.
[00:32:10]  But take comfort in knowing that once the ceremony's over, that life will get progressively better from there, even though there's some adjustment.
[00:32:22]  This is going off.
[00:32:24]  And they just randomly ask him about his wedding advice.
[00:32:29]  Really quick, cut 36, just some of his most memorable moments.
[00:32:32]  Play Cut 36.
[00:32:34]  Coach, I know you have strong thoughts on weddings.
[00:32:36]  Go elope.
[00:32:37]  Trust me on that.
[00:32:38]  That's a good win.
[00:32:39]  There's a lot of people like Woodstock since everybody's got their clothes on.
[00:32:43]  I think candy corn's awful.
[00:32:45]  You know, it's like fruitcake.
[00:32:48]  I hope there's Bigfoot.
[00:32:49]  I don't think there is.
[00:32:50]  And I'm getting emotional just seeing that.
[00:32:52]  Anyway, he was a special guy, and I'm sorry I never actually had a chance to meet him.
[00:32:58]  And as a college football devotee, he was a legend, coach of the year twice, always had undersized kids that were under-recruited and got them to overperform.
[00:33:09]  And Mike Leach would text me all the time asking me about all sorts of different topics and stuff.
[00:33:14]  And now he passed away.
[00:33:16]  And that's sad and it's tragic.
[00:33:17]  But Mike, we carry on your legacy of playing offense here for America.
[00:33:22]  God bless you, Mike Leach, and all the lives you impacted.
[00:33:27]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:33:28]  Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:33:31]  Thank you so much for listening.
[00:33:33]  God bless.
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